Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts an...d the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and met...hods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of s...trength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Apart from their other characteristics, the outstanding thing about China's 600 million people is that they are "poor and blank." ...This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing. Poverty gives rise to the desire for change, the desire for action and the desire for revolution. On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so l...eisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »